A B S T R A C TThe purpose of the research was to explore the development of social skills among elementary school children and identify similarities and differences based on socio-demographic characteristics. The research was conducted in 2017. This study used a sample of 1639 fifth and eighth-grade students from 17 primary schools in the area of the Central Bosnia Canton. The obtained findings provided significant results. The high level of selfassessment of social competence was determined. The results also showed that there is a statistically significant difference between the respondents in the assessment of social competence with regard to the gender and grade of the students. The correlation between social competence and students' school performance was determined. These findings will have their practical application in teaching process, and help teachers and students in the development of social competence through teaching process.

Creativity, as one of the key factors of success, should primarily be represented in educational institutions in all segments of life, ranging from pre-school to higher education institutions. Starting from the assumption that simple, monotonous and not interesting classes are one of the main obstacles to successful education of a student, in this paper we will explore the creative approach in teaching process in order to reduce boredom in classrooms. The sample consisted of 134 participants. There were 66 participants in the experimental and 68 participants in the control groups. The students in the experimental group were in the classrooms where the creative approach was used, while the students of the control group attended the classes in which the traditional approach of teaching was used. The research was conducted based on a designed research model. The instrument was distributed before applying the experimental model and after its application. The aim of this study was to examine whether the introduction of creativity into teaching process influences its efficiency, and at the same time reduces boredom. Analysis of the final measurement results showed that the level of students boredom in the experimental group was reduced comparing to the level of students boredom in the control group. Whats more, findings showed that the application of creative models within the teaching process had a positive effect on reducing boredom.Keywords: creativity, creative teacher, efficient / contemporary teaching process, boredom.

Cilj istraživanja je ispitivanje i utvrđivanjeatribucije učenika o školskomocjenjivanju i postojanju razlike izmeđuставова učenika o školskom ocjenjivanjus obzirom na pol, dob i mjesto škole.Traženi su odgovori na pitanje postoji listrah od ocjenjivanja i statistički značajnarazlika između učenika u samoprocjeneo strahu od ocjenjivanja. U istraživanjuje učestvovalo 612 učenika IV iV razreda osnovnih škola sa područjaopštine Travnik. Dobiveni nalazi su daliznačajne odgovore.Utvrđena je statističkiznačajna razlika između učenikas obzirom na pol i mjesto škole, te pozitivnapovezanost između uspjeha učenikai njihove samoprocjeneo straha odocjenjivanja. Nalazi do kojih smo došliimaće svoju praktičnu primjenu kako bise smanjio strah od ocjenjivanja.

The future upbringing and education is based on the successful and quality building of the partnership between family and the school in which the child is in the centre. Collaboration represents a joint action and negotiation aimed at finding solutions, or a new, common starting point. Inclusion of parents in the life and work of the school is one of the most important factors that influence the success of a child. One way to involve parents is to train them to help children in school-based learning through school-based programmes. Because of the great importance of parental help, it was important to explore how this help could be more effective. The aim of the research is to determine the effects of experimental treatment on children in school learning. The sample of respondents consists of 96 parents of pupils of the primary school "Turbe" Central Bosnia Canton. Out of the total number of subjects, 49 make the experimental group and 47 respondents are in the control group. The experimental group was involved in an experimental program aimed at training parents to help children with school learning. The results of the research have shown that experimental treatment positively affects the help of parents to children in school learning. Workshops as a way of working with parents proved to be effective in both genders (male, female) of respondents, but also with parents with different levels of education as well as different working status.